[ConservativeMind]

That's asinine.

So, if you are a librarian and someone claims to be a dispatcher or an officer from the local police department, do you give over all your information? Of course not!

Unless, that is, you let me call you up and request your Social Security number and your bank account information after I tell you the same line.

Only idiots give that sort of information up without a high level of proof.

Are you an idiot?

[plan2succeed.org]

You said, "Are you an idiot?"

That's not necessary, is it?

[muawiyah]

The cops wanted her name ~ the library knew it.

That is NOT any sort of confidential information.